> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Aaron Hill <lilyp...@hillvisions.com> > To: lilypond-user@gnu.org > Date: Mon, 13 May 2019 16:46:28 -0700 > Subject: Re: ChordName Font Size > On 2019-05-13 3:35 pm, Flaming Hakama by Elaine wrote: > > I was going to reply to this, then realized I hadn't read the question > > specifically enough. > > > > When I tried this approach suggested by Aaron, > > I noticed that it doesn't actually address the question, > > as it leaves the musical symbols (like sharp, flat) the same size, > > while the text font changes size. > > That is precisely the purpose of this function: To change the size of > the letters in a chord name but not the musical symbols. > ...
> > The solution here is simple. An undersized font requires some > "embiggening" but you do not want to affect the musical glyphs which are > already at the correct size. > Thanks for this explanation. I guess I didn't understand the design at first, but now that you point it out, this makes a lot of sense. > An alternate solution would be to change the procedure so that it only > affects the musical glyphs. This would let you shrink the symbols to > visually match the font once you have determine what size you want the > lettering at. But why blame/punish the glyphs for being too big when it > is the text that is too small? > Agreed, your original approach seems appropriate. Thanks for all the explanation, this is very helpful. > ;;; The case where mu is a list. > > ;;; This next statement confuses me > > ;;; since in it, we treat mu as a pair, by > > using > > car. > > ;;; So, it it a list or a pair? > > (if (eq? (car mu) musicglyph-markup) > > Lists are pairs. Specifically, every (non-empty) list is a pair > consisting of the first element and the rest of the elements, where the > rest is itself a list or null. "car" is used here as the means to > access the first item of a list. I could have said "first" which is an > alias. > Is it possible to have a 1-element list? If so, in pair context, would that evaluate to a first element and an empty list? Thanks, Elaine Alt 415 . 341 .4954 "*Confusion is highly underrated*" ela...@flaminghakama.com Producer ~ Composer ~ Instrumentalist ~ Educator -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
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